The LHSAA’s 2019-20 athletic season is over as executive director Eddie Bonine cancels the seasons for spring sports. Baseball, softball, track and field and other sports have been on hold since mid-March. Bonine says they hoped that those seasons could resume, but the continuing spread of the coronavirus left them with no choice but to end high school sports for this school year
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Bonine hopes the fall sports season will start on time. He says football teams will get an extra week of preseason practice, but eligibility issues will have to be addressed. He says the LHSAA executive committee will meet in June to discuss the situation.

A four-star safety out of Texas commits to LSU. Bryan Allen Junior is rated as the second-best safety in the nation by 24-7 sports for the class of 2022.

Eight former LSU players will participate in the 2020 NFL virtual draft broadcast which is in two weeks. This means Joe Burrow, Grant Delpit, Justin Jefferson, Kristian Fulton, Lloyd Cushenberry, Patrick Queen, K’Lavon Chaisson and Thaddeus Moss will be available for interviews once they are selected. The former Tigers are among 58 players who will participate.

Former Saints wide receiver Brandin Cooks is on the move again. The Rams have traded Cooks to the Texans for a future fourth-round pick. This will be Cooks’ fourth team after he spent his first three seasons in New Orleans.

A court official says the emails the Saints sent to the Archdiocese of New Orleans should remain private. A man who says he was abused by clergy with the Archdiocese of New Orleans says the Saints helped the church conceal the crimes. The Saints say their told the Archbishop to be transparent.